This is probably my favorite movie out of all the other movies that were created by Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli Studios. This movie had everything, action, suspense, romance, and even his trademark concern for nature. The film is about a boy that had been living peacefully in his village when a demon boar attacks. In order to save his village, the boy becomes infected with what drove the boar to become a demon (pollution). He is told to leave his village, and he begins his journey. He meets a family of wolves and a human girl (Princess Mononoke) that lives with them, but they are hostile towards the boy. He also discovers that there is an iron mining village that is polluting the environment, but befriends the people that live there. He must then choose who to side with, the iron town or Princess Mononoke, industrialization or the environment. The main reason why I liked this movie so much was because, it felt like Miyazaki wanted to really just tell people that we should be concerned about the environment instead of just hiding it in the background of most of his other movies. He basically comes out and says that the environment is dying due to our pollution and irresponsibility.
The fight between industrialization and the environment is very much real, both in the film and in the real world. Miyazaki just shows us how he sees how industrialization and the environment are interacting with each other in this film. He seems to believe that the environment will strike back if industrialization goes too far and pollutes too much. We can see the results of green house gases and global warming today. Miyazaki shows that humans can not abuse the environment as much as they want without consequences and that humans must respect the environment if they plan to take things from it.
Once again I was amazed at the detail of the animation and the wonderful music made specifically for this film. Then there are things that surprised me when I first say the movie, so much violence and gore from Miyazaki. The film has a lot of violence and gore. For example, the boy accidentally shoots off a samurai's arms with an arrow. I thought that was pretty entertaining, but I believe many people were like me and suspected a more tame movie. I feel bad for those parents that brought their children to watch this movie and finding out that it was nothing like Totoro. It was unexpected, but I think the violence and gore was a nice change by Miyazaki. Any fan of Miyazaki should really watch this film if they haven't already done so.
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Way to compare an anime about talking animals, to global warming, Props. On a further note, plz dont summarize the movie because it is alot for us to read. I agree with your comments; though they seem to not say much about much :(
In response to your post, yes i know the dubbing isn't THAT bad. Atleast it isn't like pokemon, yugioh, or the dreaded "BELIEVE IT!!!"
I also liked the global warming/environmentalism comparison. It's kind of cool to realize Miyazaki was talready thinking about this in 1997.
And if the environment really does strike back, I hope that it's as cool as this movie.
I liked how you talked about the global status compared to the environment issues. It is very nice to see that the environmental aspect can come back and make the film as interesting as it is. Nice work sir.
Oh Yeah I enjOyed the violence and gore sUrprise from Miyazaki aS well. Not something I have ever noticed in any of his other films so it was qUite the shoCk but it was put in nicely even if unreal. Knowing his style though he is pretty consistent throughout his film with detail and intracate workings of animation, music, and so forth.
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